Revealed in Makkah in the early period of the Makkan era of the Prophet Muhammad’s mission, this sūrah of five verses takes its name from the verb TabBa (be ruined), in the first verse. It promises and foretells the perishing of Abū Lahab and his wife, Umm Jamīl, implying the perdition awaiting similar people.
May both hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and are ruined are they!1